Aug. 2 Olympics scenes: Day 6

In the marquee event of the Olympics, the women's gymnastics individual all-around, American Gabby Douglas won the gold medal over Russia's Viktoria Komova (right). Aliya Mustafina of Russia won bronze. Scroll through the gallery for more scenes from a busy day Thursday at the London Olympics.
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Carmelo Anthony (right) led the United States to a record-setting win over Nigeria. Anthony scored 37 points and the US set a record for points in an Olympic game in its 156-73 rout.
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Aly Raisman, of Needham, Mass., finished fourth in the women's gymnastics all-around. She tied the third-place finisher, but dropped to fourth because of a tiebreaking scoring system in which a gymnast's total scores for her top three events are added together.
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Chad le Clos (right) of South Africa touched the wall ahead of Milorad Cavic of Serbia in the second men's 100 butterfly semifinal. The final is scheduled for
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Aly Raisman was 10th on the balance beam portion of the women's gymnastics all-around. She scored 14.2, the lowest of her four scores.
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She received a hug from coach Liang Chow after her unven bars routine. Douglas was first on both vault and beam, and finished third on uneven pars and fourth on floor exercise.
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Kayla Harrison (in white) became the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in judo on Thursday when she defeated Gemma Gibbons of Great Britain in the women's 78-kg final. Harrison trains with US judo coach Jimmy Pedro in Wakefield, Mass.
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Tyler Clary of the United States won gold in the men's 200 backstroke, setting an Olympic record of 1:53.41 as he edged Irie Ryosuke of Japan. US swimmer Ryan Lochte was third.
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Michael Phelps added to his record haul of Olympic medals by winning the 200 individual medley. Phelps' Team USA teammate Ryan Lochte won silver and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary won bronze.
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Kayla Harrison (in white), ranked No. 4 in the world and a former world champion, was in top form in the tournament, dispatching many of her opponents with a match-ending ippon move, one in less than a minute.
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Rebecca Soni of the United States won the gold medal and set a world record (2:19.59) in the women's 200 breaststroke. Soni, who also set a world record in the event semifinals, finished more than a second ahead of Satomi Suzuki of Japan.
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Britain's Ben Pipes set up a spike for Mark Mcgivern (left) against Italy's Luigi Mastrangelo during their men's Group A volleyball match.
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Great Britain's team sprint track cycling team of Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy won the gold medal with a world record performance at the Olympic Velodrome. France was second, Germany third.
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The US rowing team got Thursday off to a golden start in the women's eights event. Coxswain Mary Whipple (center) was joined by (from left) Caryn Davies, Caroline Lind, Eleanor Logan, Meghan Musnicki, Taylor Ritzel, Esther Lofgren, Zsuzsanna Francia, and Erin Cafaro on the podium.
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Kayla Harrison, of Marblehead, Mass., defeated Mayra Aguiar of Brazil in the women's 78-kg judo semifinals and advanced to the gold medal match later on Thursday.
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The London Olympics continued on Thursday with the start of the equestrian dressage event, and Jan Ebeling of the United States rode one of the event's most famous horses, Rafalca. Rafalca is co-owned by Ann Romney, the wife of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Prince William (left) and his wife, Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended a tennis match between Andy Murray of Great Britain and Nicolas Almagro of Spain. Murray won, 6-4, 6-1.
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Argentina's Manu Ginobili (right) reacted to a teammate after they scored against Tunisia.
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Jessica Fox of Australia competed in the women's kayak single slalom at the Lee Valley White Water Centre.
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Chuang Chih-yuan of Taiwan lost to Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany in the bronze medal match at the men's singles table tennis event.
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South Africa's lightweight men’s fours won gold. The rowers are, from left, Sizwe Ndlovu, John Smith, Mathew Brittain and James Thompson.
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Abigel Joo of Hungary took on against Kayla Harrison, who is from Wakefield, Mass., during the women's 78-kg judo competition. Harrison won the match to advance to the semifinals.
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Katelyn Falgowski of the United States and Fiona Boyce of Australia went head-to-head in a preliminary field hockey match at Riverbank Arena.
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France's Nikola Karabatic scores a goal against Tunisia's Mahmoud Gharbi in their men's handball Preliminaries Group A match at the Copper Box venue during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 2, 2012. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (BRITAIN—Tags: SPORT OLYMPICS SPORT HANDBALL)
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Victoria Azarenka of Belarus took on Angelique Kerber of Germany in the women's singles tennis. Azarenka won the match, 6-4, 7-5.
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Greta Cicolari of Italy spiked over Annie Martin of Canada in their beach volleyball match. Italy, won, 2-1
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